John Cowan wrote:
Indeed: you could say "ko kurci do" (or "ko do kurci" or "doi ko do do kurci" or whatever) but "ko ko kurci" is kind of cute.Martin Norbäck scripsit:I have always thought that the "ko" construct is a bit of a kludge. What especially bugged me was the example in CLL "ko ko kurji". Why replace both "do" with "ko"?Because it lets you express two meanings simultaneously: "Take care of yourself" "Be taken care of by yourself"
Lojban is like Perl in that respect: su'o re lo tadji ka'e xanri robin.tr --"His youngest brother, Tendzin Choegyal, says one of the Dalai Lama's greatest finds of recent years was super-glue -- second, in fact, only to the more recent discovery of super-glue remover."
Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin